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At https://meta.clld.org, you can find information about over 9500 languages (and dialects) via CLDF datasets. The Cross-Linguistic Data Format is being more and more widely adopted.
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New paper out: "Different explanations in grammar are mutually compatible: Structural, evolutionary and biocognitive", in the journal "Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters" (volume 7, 2024) https://tmp.sc/index.php/eng/archive/2024-7-2
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LSA president Tony Woodbury on Sapir's idea that each language has its own "genius", and that each language should be described with its own framework, rather than through a general ("theoretical") framework. muse.jhu.edu/article/948426
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Vielfaltslinguistk 7, Uni Münster, 2.-23. Juni 2025: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sprachwissenschaft/forschung/vielfaltslinguistik7/index.html
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🔥 Top post: Is Google Scholar disappearing? Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad · 21 likes + reposts
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What is a “copula”, and what is “predicative inflection”? This new blogpost continues the comparison between the comparative concepts of Creissels et al. (2026) (in Bertinetto et al. 2026) and those of Haspelmath (2025): http://dlc.hypo…
What's a word? Quid verbum st? Flavio Cecchini on Latin "words" for UD (Universal Dependencies), inspired by Haspelmath (2023): https://aclanthology.org/anthology-files/pdf/udw/2025.udw-1.pdf
At https://meta.clld.org, you can find information about over 9500 languages (and dialects) via CLDF datasets. The Cross-Linguistic Data Format is being more and more widely adopted.
The abstracts for the upcoming SLE conference in Bordeaux are now available – over 600 talks, with abstracts on 1150 pages: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/schedule/
Why the morph-based view and the paradigm-based view of morphology are compatible (and why we don't need the term "category"): https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009117
Vielfaltslinguistk 7, Uni Münster, 2.-23. Juni 2025: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sprachwissenschaft/forschung/vielfaltslinguistik7/index.html
New draft on back-formation and forward-formation – comments welcome! The concepts of "inventorium" and "idiosyncrasy" are crucial here, as well as the difference between (word or sentence) "formation" and "coinage". Importantly, "word-
fo…
New paper out: "Different explanations in grammar are mutually compatible: Structural, evolutionary and biocognitive", in the journal "Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters" (volume 7, 2024) https://tmp.sc/index.php/eng/archive/2024-7-2
A surprising claim: systematic comparative linguistics does not need "correct analyses" of particular languages. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008437
Numeratives in the languages of Asia and beyond: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008754 Abstract: This paper gives an overview of some of the conceptual issues that have arisen in the literature on sortal numeral classifiers. I propose the t…
LSA president Tony Woodbury on Sapir's idea that each language has its own "genius", and that each language should be described with its own framework, rather than through a general ("theoretical") framework. muse.jhu.edu/article/948426
What's a word? Quid verbum st? Flavio Cecchini on Latin "words" for UD (Universal Dependencies), inspired by Haspelmath (2023): https://aclanthology.org/anthology-files/pdf/udw/2025.udw-1.pdf
At https://meta.clld.org, you can find information about over 9500 languages (and dialects) via CLDF datasets. The Cross-Linguistic Data Format is being more and more widely adopted.
The abstracts for the upcoming SLE conference in Bordeaux are now available – over 600 talks, with abstracts on 1150 pages: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/schedule/
Why the morph-based view and the paradigm-based view of morphology are compatible (and why we don't need the term "category"): https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009117
Vielfaltslinguistk 7, Uni Münster, 2.-23. Juni 2025: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sprachwissenschaft/forschung/vielfaltslinguistik7/index.html
New draft on back-formation and forward-formation – comments welcome! The concepts of "inventorium" and "idiosyncrasy" are crucial here, as well as the difference between (word or sentence) "formation" and "coinage". Importantly, "word-
fo…
New paper out: "Different explanations in grammar are mutually compatible: Structural, evolutionary and biocognitive", in the journal "Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters" (volume 7, 2024) https://tmp.sc/index.php/eng/archive/2024-7-2
A surprising claim: systematic comparative linguistics does not need "correct analyses" of particular languages. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008437
Numeratives in the languages of Asia and beyond: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008754 Abstract: This paper gives an overview of some of the conceptual issues that have arisen in the literature on sortal numeral classifiers. I propose the t…
LSA president Tony Woodbury on Sapir's idea that each language has its own "genius", and that each language should be described with its own framework, rather than through a general ("theoretical") framework. muse.jhu.edu/article/948426
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